[lexicalscope]

I actually was thinking that the graceful degrade was how it was implemented initially and was about to write it off until I got to that part. Interesting.

At this point I still don't buy that Apple is doing this to hold things back. Do you have other examples of when they've been behind on features with no clear explanation of why? It's okay if not - you said you were only casually following - but curious.

They wouldn't have very much to gain in my mind - none of their core business relies on locking in/out web development. They have an app market, and I guess you could argue they're trying to drive that, but they have implemented a lot of other features, and early extensions in many cases, that doesn't really align with them trying to hold web back.

[circlingthesun]

Well, for one, local storage in private mode has been completely borked for at least for a couple of years now.